to: require that the rules of all registered organisations deal with disclosure of remuneration, pecuniary and financial interests; increase civil penalties; strengthen the investigative powers of Fair Work Australia; and require education and training to be provided to officials of registered organisations about their governance and accounting obligations.

to clarify that the Auditor-General may accept an appointment under the

Corporations Act 2001

as an auditor of any Commonwealth controlled company;

Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997

to: ensure that directors of Commonwealth authorities and wholly-owned Commonwealth companies prepare Budget estimates as directed by the Finance Minister; and ensure that directors of Commonwealth authorities and wholly-owned Commonwealth companies notify the responsible minister of decisions to undertake certain significant events;

Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Act 2010

to make technical amendments; and

Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

to: enable the Finance Minister to clarify the day on which a special account determination commences; focus the operation of drawing rights on payments and remove the penalty relating to drawing rights; enable the Finance Minister, on behalf of the Commonwealth, to exercise a discretion to ‘set-off’ amounts owed to the Commonwealth with amounts payable to the Commonwealth; and provide that the Finance Minister cannot delegate certain powers or functions. Also repeals the

to: replace the maternity immunisation allowance by making payment of the family tax benefit (FTB) Part A supplement conditional on a child meeting the immunisation requirements; pause the indexation of baby bonus for three years from 1 July 2012 and reset the amount of baby bonus to $5000 per child from 1 September 2012; and prevent an individual from being entitled to FTB as fortnightly instalments on the basis of estimated income in certain circumstances;

Social Security Act 1991

and

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

to give certain carer allowance recipients, who care for a disabled adult, access to bereavement payments on the death of the care receiver;

Social Security Act 1991

to allow access to carer supplement for those carers whose rate of payment is reduced to nil because of employment income received in the fortnight covering 1 July in any given year; and

in relation to the textile, clothing and footwear industry to: extend the operation of most of the provisions of the Act to contract outworkers; enable outworkers to recover unpaid amounts up the supply chain; enable an outwork code of practice to be issued; and extend specific right of entry rules to sweatshop premises.

Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the

Medicare Levy Act 1986

to increase the rate of Medicare levy surcharge for certain taxpayers who do not have complying health insurance and whose income for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold.

Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the

A New Tax System (Medicare Levy Surcharge--Fringe Benefits) Act 1999

to increase the rate of Medicare levy surcharge for taxpayers who do not have complying health insurance and whose income (including reportable fringe benefits) for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold.

Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the

Age Discrimination Act 2004

,

Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

,

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

,

Private Health Insurance Act 2007

,

Taxation Administration Act 1953

and

Taxation (Interest on Overpayments and Early Payments) Act 1983

to reduce the amount of private health insurance rebate eligible taxpayers with complying private health insurance are entitled to when their income for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold.

to: lower the maximum child age of eligibility for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A from 24 to 21 years of age from 1 January 2012; and pause indexation for the: higher income free area for FTB Part A; FTB Part B income limit; and baby bonus income limit;

Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

to extend the commencement date for indexation of the paid parental leave income limit;

Social Security Act 1991

to require people to test their future work capacity by participating in training or work-related activities in order to qualify for the disability support pension;

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

to enable income management to continue in the Cape York area for another 12 months; and

to move the details for corporate plans of a government business enterprise into the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Regulations 1997;

Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

to: provide for sunsetting and disallowance arrangements of various legislative instruments; provide that Chief Executive’s instructions are not legislative instruments; and clarify that the external auditor of a Financial Management and Accountability Act agency is the Auditor-General;

Legislative Instruments Act 2003

to make consequential amendments;

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999

,

Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

and

Science and Industry Research Act 1949

to make technical amendments;

Wheat Export Marketing Act 2008

to expand the circumstances in which amounts can be credited to the Wheat Exports Australia Special Account; and

Wine Australia Corporation Act 1980

to provide: when the Wine Australia Corporation must provide an annual operation plan to the responsible minister; and that members are appointed to the Geographical Indications Committee for no longer than three years.

to: provide for the assessment and monitoring of the financial viability of large long day care centre operators of approved child care services; and authorise the secretary to engage an audit expert to carry out an independent audit of a centre operator if there are concerns about its ongoing financial viability.